WIP challenge - day 5 check-in!

[littlebutfierce]

Checking in! We're inching towards the end of the week. How's it going today?

Poll #6888 Day 5 check-in!

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 14

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How's the fic going today?

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Fantastic
3 (21.4%)

All right
3 (21.4%)

Creeping along
5 (35.7%)

Not going anywhere at all
3 (21.4%)

We're nearing the end of the 1st week of the challenge. Are you:

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Behind schedule for your goal
3 (23.1%)

Ahead of schedule for your goal
1 (7.7%)

On track for your goal
5 (38.5%)

It's too early to tell
4 (30.8%)

What did you do today, fic-wise?

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Write
6 (54.5%)

Edit
3 (27.3%)

Send to beta
0 (0.0%)

Research
1 (9.1%)

Procrastinate
2 (18.2%)

Something else I will describe in comments
3 (27.3%)

Three words or less about your fic!

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& today's discussion question brought to you by me having no time at all for fic today. Oh, & by the flamingo, of course. Let's talk procrastination! We all have days where, sadly, offline obligations prevent us from writing fic. But how do we prevent ourselves from writing fic? How do you slack off when you do, technically, have the time to devote to fic? Can you persuade yourself that it's not procrastination, but research or taking a break or catching up on other things? What's the difference if so? & how do you fight off the urge to procrastinate?

Comments

[dragovianknight]

What I wrote is actually from a later story in the planned arc, but it is making me SO HAPPY I don't care (and usually, I write a little backwards, so when something hits me like this it means I'm going to be writing the setup for it soon).

As for procrastination, all I can say is: TV Tropes.

[jagnikjen]

TV Tropes

I can surf there for hours, too. :)

[charamei]

Oh God, TV Tropes.

And yay for happy-making scenes! Those are the best kind!

[glitteryv]

Writing is writing is writing. If your muse wanted to tussle with a later fic and it made YOU happy (therefore--hopefully?--inspired to work on your goal fic), then yays to you!

[littlebutfierce]

Yay for your writing making you happy!! If it's later in the arc, so what? It might make something click on the parts you're trying to write currently, & plus... writing making you this happy is totally worth going out of order. :)

& HAHAHA TV TROPES. Indeed.

[curuchamion]

Writing out of order is good, if it means writing vs not writing! I've been hopping all around my story (which isn't going to be laid out linearly anyway - it's flashbacks and framing story, and at the moment the flashbacks are taking over the madhouse.) :D